On 10/23/07, Peter William Lount <peter at smalltalk.org> wrote:
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> Even the magical Erlang way of concurrency won't solve real world issues
> such as multiple processes contending for limited hardware resources.
> These need synchronization. No one answered Igor's point on this.

But they do deal with it:  points of contention like this get their
own process.  When you open a file in Erlang a process is started to
manage it.  All reads and writes go through this process so you can
have as many processes doing these read/writes as you want.